{"id":2449,"date":"2023-09-27T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:46:55","slug":"prof-neha-lall-named-a-bellow-scholar-in-clinical-legal-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/prof-neha-lall-named-a-bellow-scholar-in-clinical-legal-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Neha Lall Named a Bellow Scholar in Clinical Legal Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Prof. Neha Lall<\/span><\/b><\/a>, director of externships at the University of Baltimore School of Law, has been selected as a 2023-24 Bellow Scholar for her research project,\u202f<\/span>Paid Externships as a Tool to Advance Student Equity and Autonomy<\/span><\/i>.\u202fThe new class of five Bellow Scholars made their first presentations at the AALS Clinical Conference in San Francisco in April.<\/span>
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The American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education\u2019s Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest (aka the Bellow Scholars Program) selects a new cohort of law professors every two years to recognize and support innovative empirical research proposals designed to promote economic and social justice.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The\u202f<\/span>Bellow Scholars Program<\/span><\/a>\u202frecognizes and supports the research projects that reflect the ideals of Prof.\u202f<\/span>Gary Bellow<\/span><\/a>, a pioneering founder of modern clinical legal education. Lall\u2019s project was unanimously selected by the committee, according to AALS, because it is an excellent example of this type of scholarship.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Lall\u2019s research studies UBalt Law\u2019s new paid externship program, which launched in the fall of 2022. Even though the ABA lifted the prohibition on paid externships in 2016, many in the legal academy remain concerned about whether the educational value of field placement courses can be maintained when students are being paid. UBalt Law lifted the ban on paid externships after considerable debate, deciding that the policy was limiting opportunities and disparately affecting students who needed paid employment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cInstead of speculating about what will happen if we allow paid externships, it\u2019s time to gather data to see what happens when we allow pay on a wide scale,\u201d says Lall. \u201cUBalt Law has a diverse student body and large externship program, with over 60 percent of its students receiving compensation. We are an ideal institution to carry out this study.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Lall analyzes, from a student perspective, how students are factoring pay into their externship placement decision-making process, which students are benefiting from pay, and how those benefits have affected the quality of their overall educational experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This data will advance national conversations about paid externships in legal education, Lall notes. \u201cTraditional pathways into the legal profession do not work for many of today\u2019s students, who carry a significant debt load and simply cannot afford to work for free,\u201d she says. \u201cIf we want to have a diverse profession, we need to make it financially feasible for law students to get the experience they need.\u201d\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. Neha Lall, director of externships at the University of Baltimore School of Law, has been selected as a 2023-24 Bellow Scholar for her research project,\u202fPaid Externships as a Tool to Advance Student Equity and Autonomy.\u202fThe new class of five Bellow Scholars made their first presentations at the AALS Clinical Conference in San Francisco in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}